HOW SHOULD PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SERVICES BE REVITALIZED?

Gorga Denisa IuliaGr. 206

SUMMARYIn my presentation I will speak about public administration and the existing issues in the system.

I think we all were faced with unhappy or uninterested employees.

People don’t trust any longer in public administration’s services and we have to find new concepts to improve it or to rethink the public administration.

Public administration is often seen as a set of State Institutions, processes, procedures, system and organizational structures, practices and behaviour for managing public affairs to serve public interest.

However since later part of the 1970’s , the meaning of public administration has gradually become diluted, giving way to the concept of public management

. •The world of government and public administration has traveled far since the early days of its struggle for disciplinary independence. Lately, there has been talk of the advent of a new spirit in the public sector, or at least expectations of its coming. •The world wide globalization process supported by stronger orientations towards open markets, open highways of information, growing levels of organizational learning and interdisciplinarity in the social sciences have also made their impact on the study of our bureaucracies. •Yet by all definitions public administration in the beginning of the 2000s still lacks the sense of identity that other fields of the social sciences has long since obtained. •Today, public administration is already very different from what it used to be forty, thirty, and even twenty or ten years ago.

STRATEGIES:I. Transforming the role of human resources.

A. Developing a holistic and country- driven approach.B. Creating and enabling environment: 1.restoring pride in the concept of public service;2. enhacing respect for professionalism;3. improving conditions of service;

II. Building blocks for capacity development of human resources.

A. Constructing an appropriate institutional framework.

B. Identifying common values and professional standards.

C. Developing competency frameworks for core professional groups.’

D. Desingning effective capacity development strategies.

E. Institutionalizing human resources planning.

III. Human resources-key to high quality services.A. Capacity development of staff requires long term perspective and commitment.B. Merit-based recruitment and promotion in the civil service is essential.C. Determined and skilful leadership drives the reform process. D. Training of staff is an important engine for administration change.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN TRANSITION The foundations of modern public administration can be discerned

thousands of years ago, across cultures, and in various nations around the globe. The Bible mentions a variety of hierarchical and managerial structures that served as prototypes for governance of growing populations. Ancient methods of public labor distribution were expanded by the Greeks and the Romans to control vast conquered lands and many peoples. The Persian and Ottoman empires in the Middle East, like India and imperial China in the Far East, and the Mesoamerica cultures paved the way for public administration in the modern age, where in European Christians, and later Christians of the New World, were in the ascendant.

All these, as well as other cultures, used a remarkably similar set of concepts, ideas, and methods for governing and administrating public goods, resources, and interests.

CONCLUSIONS As a conclusion we can say that human resources

and the main institutions play a big part in the process of rethinking public administration and improving its services. Already we can speak about a reform wich has started years ago and it will continue.

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